Intel has quietly introduced a whole heap of new Sandy Bridge processors, modestly cut the price on some old processors, and even discontinued a few Pentium processors. Most of the new models are simple speed bumps of previous models. There are couple of new low power processors, including the Core i3 2120T and the Pentium G630T, each bringing an extra 100 Mhz, […]
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Mediaroom is Microsoft’s IPTV platform. Mediaroom 2.0 was announced at CES 2010. News about Mediaroom 2.0 has been hard to come by pretty much ever since. There has been speculation about how far Mediaroom would expand beyond set-top boxes and the Xbox 360, and now we have more info about the technical details behind some of the forthcoming Mediaroom 2.0 […]
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I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this annoyance, but whenever I switch to the input on my Onkyo receiver (TX-SR607) associated with my HTPC and Windows Media Center is already running, the resolution and aspect ratio get fouled up. Everything is much larger than I want it to be and TV playback from my Ceton Infinitv4 does not […]
Read moreScarface was an easy pick so I wanted to change it up, but it really is one of the great movies of all time, with a young Al Pacino as Cuban druglord. Fringe and The Office are great TV shows of course, and then a few decent films sprinkled throughout as well. Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell but there […]
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Many of us have home theater setups in a particular room in our homes fully configured and ready to integrate with all our content and devices. But what about when you want to take that entertainment to another room, outside or even to someone else’s house? That’s where the SuperTooth Disco Bluetooth Speaker comes into play as it is a […]
Read moreA short while ago I had a failure in my MythTV server. Luckily, all of my data was ok so I just transplanted the hard drives and tuners into my development system and was on my way again. While I had everything open it quickly became obvious exactly how loud my OS hard drive had become. I knew that it […]
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One company, two stories. DirecTV has been making waves in the land of HD over the last 24 hours. The first bit of news I found exciting, or at least I would if I were a DirecTV subscriber; the second bit of news I found perplexing. The exciting news for DirecTV subscribers is that DirecTV is finally adding AMD-HD to […]
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File this one firmly in the rumor category for now, but with a strong dash of it’s only a matter of time. Evidently Dish Network is preparing to unveil a Netflix-style streaming service under the Blockbuster brand. Dish bought up Blockbuster’s assets earlier this year. At the time, I was skeptical about Dish being able to do anything with the […]
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It’s quite amazing that anyone believed Microsoft was removing Windows Media Center (WMC) from Windows 8. There has been absolutely no evidence to suggest that it would be yet, apparently due to leaked private Windows 8 builds not including WMC, some Chicken Little-types decided that was their smoking gun. Steven Sinofsky of Microsoft confirmed in today’s edition of the Building Windows […]
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I still think there are a large number of people out there who don’t realize how efficient most flat screen TVs are nowadays. People probably still believe that plasma TVs are the most environmentally unfriendly devices manufactured today. If you want a good laugh, grab a Kill A Watt monitor and check what your computer, fridge, and set top box […]
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